US energy secy Rick Perry to meet Union ministers Pradhan, Goyal to discuss crude oil, cleaner coal
India will annually purchase $2 billion worth of crude and LNG from the United States and is looking to acquire energy storing technology for its long term solar plans.
With India likely to receive its first shipment of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from the US next month, US energy secretary Rick Perry is scheduled to hold talks with petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan and coal and railways minister Piyush Goyal on March 1 with a focus on crude oil, LNG and cleaner coal technologies.
United States energy secretary Rick Perry speaks to a group of workers during a visit to the Savannah River Site and Savannah River National Laboratory near Jackson, February 2. (AP File Photo)
{{^htLoading}} {{/htLoading}}
India will annually purchase $2 billion worth of crude and LNG from the United States and is looking to acquire energy storing technology for its long term solar plans.
Senior ministry of external affairs (MEA) officials said that after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump met last June, it was decided that India would purchase 7.85 million barrels of crude and 5.8 million tons of LNG in order to diversify its energy basket beyond West Asian countries. The crude shipment of 1.6 million barrels arrived last October in Paradip.
Although secretary Perry is expected to call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit, its time and dates are still not confirmed.
In his meeting with petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Perry is likely to discuss the global crude oil situation, including its future prices. Senior officials confirmed that the meeting will also focus on LNG with shale gas not expected to be discussed on priority.
{{^htLoading}} {{/htLoading}}
{{^usCountry}}
However, during Perry’s meeting with Goyal, India is expected to seek access to cleaner coal technologies for extraction as well energy from non-conventional resources. In this context, the Prime Minister has addressed the need for efficient and cheaper energy storage technologies without any adverse impact on the environment. India is looking to collaborate with US companies for energy storage technologies and the possibility of these being manufactured in the country.
{{/usCountry}}
{{#usCountry}}
However, during Perry’s meeting with Goyal, India is expected to seek access to cleaner coal technologies for extraction as well energy from non-conventional resources. In this context, the Prime Minister has addressed the need for efficient and cheaper energy storage technologies without any adverse impact on the environment. India is looking to collaborate with US companies for energy storage technologies and the possibility of these being manufactured in the country.
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.
Get the latest India News, breaking headlines and real-time updates from across the country. Stay informed about politics, government policies, crime, weather and major national developments.
Get the latest India News, breaking headlines and real-time updates from across the country. Stay informed about politics, government policies, crime, weather and major national developments.
